congress. a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. gordon sonland who owns and mansion hotels all over the world, donated a cool million dollars to trump s inauguration fund. nbc news can now confirm that the focus of his testimony will be on the text messages he exchanged with bill taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine. remember, sonland is the official who insists in those messages that the president wasn t asking for a quid pro quo. but the washington post predicts that sonland will quote blow a hole in that defense, unquote. he is expectsed to tell lawmakers he was only relaying trump s message and has no idea if it was actually true a new